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Yet pride at hand still aidrul swelled, And up the hard ascent he held. The meeting follows. In his mien The victor and the vanquished both are seen  All that he is, and what he late had been. Awhile, with curious eyes they scan The Chief who led invasion's...Battle-pieces and aspects of the war [poems]. - Page 232by Herman Melville - 1866Full view - About this book

...Washington as a model. Perhaps this was what Herman Melville saw when he wrote after the Civil War, Who looks at Lee must think of Washington; In pain...hide the thought, So deep with grievous meaning it is fraught.40 For Henry Lee, the virtues of Washington always stood unquestioned; and they grew brighter...

...his mien The victor and the vanquished both are seen  All that he is, and what he late had been. Awhile, with curious eyes they scan The Chief who...(Developed even in jus.t success) Dim inklings of a hazy fiiture steal ; Their thoughts their questions well express : "Does the sad South still cherish hate?...

...and southerners alike, Melville stressed the ironies of one people divided by symmetrical obsessions: Who looks at Lee must think of Washington; In pain must think, and hide the thought. (148) Battle-Pieces, in short, makes amply clear that Melville "did not believe that God took sides...

...his mien The victor and the vanquished both are seen  All that he is, and what he late had been. Awhile, with curious eyes they scan The Chief who...Washington; In pain must think, and hide the thought, -  Silent and patient; and they feel The Poems (Developed even in just success) of Herman Dim inklings...

...disagreeing. Herman Melville, who had a good eye for the hypocrisy of northern industrial unionism, wrote: Who looks at Lee must think of Washington In pain...and hide the thought So deep with grievous meaning is it fraught.39 "Herman Melville, "Lee in the Capitol," in Battle-Pieces (Amherst: University of...

...his mien The victor and the vanquished both are seen All that he is, and what he late had been. Awhile, with curious eyes they scan The Chief who...thought, So deep with grievous meaning it is fraught. Lee can only ever be a temporary solution to Melville's difficulty because, like Washington himself,...

...connection to Lee's personal life. Herman Melville, however, has the last word on this popular comparison. Who looks at Lee must think of Washington; In pain...and hide the thought, So deep with grievous meaning is it fraught. Herman Melville, "Lee in the Capitol," in The Battle-Pieces of Herman Melville, ed....